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New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG

New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.

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New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb

New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!

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TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman at @humanitiesgc for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics! Register now 👉centerforthehumanities.org/event/abortion…

TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman at @humanitiesgc for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics!

Register now 👉centerforthehumanities.org/event/abortion…
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"This volume, featuring pieces from authors including Dorothy Allison, Eileen Myles and bell hooks, celebrates feminist scholarship and offers up a modern vision of the feminist canon.” The Seattle Times on THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER edited by roxane gay! seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

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A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
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“Gay’s anthology provides a crucial framework for understanding it; this piece of literature could not have come at a more crucial time.” Read The New Feminist's review of THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER, on sale tomorrow! thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/02/review…

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Roxane Gay, who is kicking off her book tour to promote her latest project, "The Portable Feminist Reader," anticipates questions about how we navigate this political moment. "We should aim higher than survival," she says. bit.ly/4clpUZ3

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"No list about Guatemalan writers would be complete without mentioning an Asturias book... [Men of Maize] tells the stories of what it means when one culture attempts and succeeds to impose itself upon the other." (via Electric Literature) electricliterature.com/9-must-read-bo…

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New Classic alert! ✨📖 The Penguin Book of Elegy edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them. Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/41QPste

New Classic alert! ✨📖 The Penguin Book of Elegy edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.

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🎉 Congratulations Roxane Gay! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉 ⁣ Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/43F2cog

🎉 Congratulations Roxane Gay! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉 ⁣

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Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by Min Jin Lee and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men! Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu

Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by <a href="/minjinlee11/">Min Jin Lee</a> and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men!

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"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —The Washington Post NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s

"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —<a href="/washingtonpost/">The Washington Post</a> 

NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
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“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books Monkey King fans, rejoice! Our Black Spine edition of the acclaimed Julia Lovell translation with a foreword by Gene Luen Yang is now available! 👉 bit.ly/4k6iSKa

“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ―<a href="/LAReviewofBooks/">Los Angeles Review of Books</a> 

Monkey King fans, rejoice! Our Black Spine edition of the acclaimed Julia Lovell translation with a foreword by <a href="/geneluenyang/">Gene Luen Yang</a> is now available! 👉 bit.ly/4k6iSKa
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky, in a new translation for the first time since publication by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and featuring an introduction and notes by Lisa Florman! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4iSqEGy

NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky, in a new translation for the first time since publication by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and featuring an introduction and notes by Lisa Florman!

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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a new translation by Alexander Booth and featuring an introduction by Jan Zwicky! Learn more and start reading now 👉 bit.ly/3GGosEA

NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a new translation by Alexander Booth and featuring an introduction by Jan Zwicky!

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100 years ago, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time! ⁣Have you read this timeless American novel? 🔗 bit.ly/439cAE5

100 years ago, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time! ⁣Have you read this timeless American novel?

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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont Translated by Anna Zaranko and with an introduction by Ryszard Koziolek, dive into one of Poland’s most significant 20th century epics from the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature now 👉 bit.ly/3ZXnvhQ

NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont

Translated by Anna Zaranko and with an introduction by Ryszard Koziolek, dive into one of Poland’s most significant 20th century epics from the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature now 👉 bit.ly/3ZXnvhQ
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden 🔗: bit.ly/43R0OhY

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden 

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